Hi all,
I have written a relatively small library which I've found pretty useful
in my own projects. I have to deal with std::basic_string objects a lot
in my applications, and I almost always write template code so that the
same code works with both std::string and std::wstring types. The only
problem which cannot be directly solved with existing language construct
is handling string literals.
To make myself clear, the below code will only work for f< char >():
template < typename char_type >
void f()
{
std::basic_string< char_type > str( "hello" );
}
What is needed here is some facility which selects either "hello" or
L"hello" based upon char_type. Now, using my library, the above code
can be fixed like this:
template < typename char_type >
void g()
{
std::basic_string< char_type > str( TextAutoSelect( char_type, "hello"
) );
}
Nearly all the job is done at compile-time, and the only runtime cost
would be that of a one-line inline function (which can be optimized away
using compiler optimizations, like the VC++ compiler does.)
I would like to know if there is any interest for this tiny library to
be submitted to Boost.
Thanks for your consideration,
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Ehsan Akhgari
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